Investigations: Tauter & Tauter

The 1,500-mile lines between Pecos,
Texas, and Washington, D.C., were getting tauter and tauter as the
Billie Sol Estes scandal hotted up. Last week Assistant Secretary of
Labor Jerry R. Holleman, 42, a Texas politician and former president
of the state A.F.L.-C.I.O., resigned after admitting that he had
accepted a $1,000 gift last January from Estes "to help ends meet."
Just two days before Holleman confirmed that he had asked Estes and
other Texans to pick up the tab for a January dinner Labor Secretary
Arthur Goldberg gave for Lyndon Johnson, but...